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AMIT 2007 NATIONAL CONVENTION FEATURES ROSTER OF NOTED GUEST SPEAKERS
DR. FRANCINE STEIN OF ENGLEWOOD TO BE INSTALLED AS PRESIDENT
New York City, June 21, 2007...... AMIT will convene its 2007 National Convention on Monday, July 9, 2007, at the noted New York City landmark, The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street. With the theme of “New Beginnings,” the all-day event will include presentations by a roster of noted guest speakers, plus a gala cocktail reception and dinner welcoming the organization’s new president, Dr. Francine Stein of Englewood, New Jersey, and honoring outgoing President Jan Schechter, a resident of Lawrence, New York.
The 2007 National Convention is being chaired by Mindy Liebman of West Hempstead, New York, and Harriet Seif, of Englewood. Ms. Liebman is the finance and audit chair of AMIT, while Ms. Seif is a member of its National Board. They are being assisted by a Convention Committee composed of Esther Goldman of New Rochelle, a national vice president of AMIT; Audrey Lookstein of New York City, who chairs the National Board of AMIT; and Esther Semmelman of Teaneck, a member of AMIT’s New Generation Board of Directors.
Featured speakers during the convention will include:
- Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, a non-profit organization that works to impact public opinion in order to help protect Israel and the world Jewish community. Ms. Mizrahi is an internationally recognized expert in communications, public opinion research, media, and politics, and conducted campaigns and campaign training across the globe – including in the United States, Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine and Venezuela. Prior to starting The Israel Project, Ms. Mizrahi was the founder and president of Laszlo & Associates, Inc., and worked on projects with the White House, President Clinton, Vice President Gore, dozens of United States Senators, and more than 160 members of Congress.
- Scott Shay, chairman of the board of Signature Bank of New York and author of Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry. Mr. Shay is actively involved in Jewish formal and informal education. He serves as a board member of UJA-Federation of New York, the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education and the Jewish Agency for Israel. He is immediate past chair of the Commission on Jewish Identity and Renewal of UJA-Federation. Mr. Shay is also a member of the Birthright Israel Steering Committee and is chair of The Fund for Jewish Education. He and his wife Susan are the founders of the Jewish Youth Connection. Mr. Shay is active in Israel investments having served for eight years as a member of the board of Bank Hapoalim. He is also a partner of Hyperion Israel Venture Partners.
- Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, associate rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City. Rabbi Soloveichik was ordained at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and studied the philosophy of religion at Yale Divinity School.
- Shani Taragin, rosh Beit Midrash at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem. Ms. Taragin completed a B.A. and M.A. in Tanach and Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Tanach. She also teaches collegiates and adults at MaTaN, Migdal Oz, Midreshet Moriah, and the Women’s' Beit Medrash in Efrat. Ms. Taragin is a graduate of Nishmat’s Keren Ariel Program for certification as a halachic advisor in issues of family purity. She lectures throughout Israel and serves on the local religious council dealing with issues of Jewish law and education.
Additionally, Benjamin Krasna, deputy consul general, will bring greetings from the State of Israel, and Dr. Amnon Eldar, director general of AMIT Israel, will report on new developments affecting AMIT’s more than 70 schools and other programs in Israel.
Couvert for the cocktail reception and dinner is $136 per person, while the cost of attending the daytime program (including luncheon) is $175. A combined reservation is $250 per person. For further information and reservations, please call 212-792-5397, or click here.
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AMIT educates and cares for Israel’s youth, including the most vulnerable. Some 70 per cent of AMIT students cope with educational, psychological, economic and/or social risk factors. AMIT approaches each child as an individual, maximizing his or her potential, and enabling our students to become vital, productive members of Israeli
society. The AMIT schools promote religious tolerance, service to the state and the recognition that every child is blessed with unique talents and abilities. Founded in 1925, AMIT operates more than 70 schools, youth villages, surrogate family residences and other programs, constituting Israel’s only government-recognized network of religious Jewish education incorporating academic and technological studies.
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